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White now and later strain11/14/2023 ![]() I have great respect for those trained in the classification of plants and the attention to detail that it requires. If you’re a plant taxonomist, please accept my apologies, we’ve taken many liberties with describing different plant species in this book at the expensive of, undoubtedly, technical accuracy. Perhaps one day, a “Volume Two” will be created that has more species, but for now this should cover most of your needs. ![]() There are literally hundreds of other species we could have included in this book, but we wanted to focus on species that are commonly found in agricultural areas or that are common in Ontario and may pose a risk to human health (such as rashes and blisters caused by giant hogweed or wild parsnip). This book is for people who work in agriculture and are hoping to minimize the impact that weeds have on their crops. So for the Weed ID Guide for Ontario Field Crops François, Jocelyne and I have tried to take the best of all those guides and create what we hope is a comprehensive field guide to easy weed identification. That section was well received by farmers, agronomists and aspiring weed scientists. In the mid 2000s, Peter Smith and I wrote a small weed ID guide: A field guide to grassy and broadleaf weeds mainly so that we could experiment with macro photography and a section called I know it’s not … because where we could spell out the specific characteristics that made a plant different from similar looking species. ![]() ![]() Since I began a career in weed science over 20 years ago, my three "go to" weed identification books have been Ontario Weeds, Weeds of Quebec and Weeds of the NorthEast. Tab to close the table of contents and return to the book. ![]()
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